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0LISBY & REID, Proprietors. The Family Journal.—News—Politics—Literature—Agriculture—Domestic Affairs. GEORGIA TELEGRAPH BUILDING ESTABLISHED 1826.} MACON, FRIDAY. OCTOBER 3D, I860. VOL XIIY.-IO. 16 Georgia Telograpli Building, Macon. —.. «10 00 bates op subscription : . ,#»Tiligbaph—for on© year...^.^. Tri rnn,ru -forrUt months 5 00 W 1L e nr >horter periods One Dollar per month. . L. ssai-WaCKLT TELKQBAPH-oneyear.. 4 00 «***;!': skbi-Wkekly Teleobaph—six m’ths 2 00 »" ' th WiiKtr Teleobaph—ono year. 3 00 StSiotB WallXT TsleoBaph—rix months 1 SO S'” ^Payable always tn ailvance.'nZ iioolc nncl Job Printing ” Veatly executed at reasonable prices. Renitunoes by mail with Postmaster’s certificate a oft For the Telegraph.\ O, Gather Them Home. BT MAJOR SIDNEY HKHBERT. “Over threo thousand Confederate soldiers are Lnriod oa near the battle field of Gettysburg There should be something done, says a letter to Qdpfisl fiUhngb Lee, with the remains of the f(r( j :W n soldiers. There are about six hundred nsrted graves, and these aro fast becoming oblite- nted. Their names might be preserved and the re- psins gathered together into a cemetery or burying (-round if anybody would take the matter in hand. E. Leo, whom they followed, fighting under leadership they foil, approves the plan of ^Ting their bodies to onr own soil. The Holly- ' ,j Memorial Association have the disposition to mlcrtake this work, but do not possess the ability juldj generously aided by friends throughout the They offer ample grounds in their cemete- r algo tlio aid of the Association to prosecute t^Kork, should it bo found practicable to remove *> bodies to Richmond. To accomplish this pur* ■ ,e means most be raised by the earnest efforts of tetorrivore of the Confederate army, the mothers pj (iitera and fathers and brotliers, and friends of theilain. Every Southern State haB representatives „ fif ttysbuig. Will not active men and women in ifwycity, town and county, at once volunteer to gOect and send contributions ? In this way we may Gather the corpses strewn O’er many a battle plain, From many a grave that lies so lone, Without a name and without a stone, Gather the Southern slain. Mrs. Geo. W. Randolph, Mrs. Robert E. Lee, Mrs. J. L. M. Cubby. 1 ’ 0 gither them homo with the tonderest care, He bodies of thoso who are lying there; lung there, as they ought never to do, fsMSTied and unhonored,* beside tlio “bluo.” let, over that field, so bloody and wide, Tby laid in their death pangs side by side; But cow, while the “blues” bavo a mother's care, The forms of the “grays” aro becoming bare.f 0. gather them home—O, bear them hence, There the care of their graves gives no offence; There the hallowed tear can be shed in peace, Strife and daughter, or mother and niece— They who so loved them from the day of birth, ltd who long h&vo honored them for their worth ; Then alt whom they fought for and bravely fell, O'er their soldier-graves may their virtues tell. 0. pither them homo with a purpose strong, Rut their names shall live In heroic soDg; For fierce was the fight of those fearful days, When death made such liavoo ’mong "blues and grays." R*y were your sons and husbands and brothers, ltd wero loved by you as by no others. Ti at your hands and from your tender hearts The; claim the c&ro that gratitude imparts. 0. gather them home, all those dear ones, dead, ltd place the mark of honor at their head. Hided bo tho hand and speechless be tba tongue That would quench the songs that may yet be snog. Or mar the records that shall yet be placed There they are to sleep who bravely faced Both the cannon’s month and the sabre’s stroke, Then the call of duty their zeal awoke. 0, gather them home, the brave “boys in gray." Tho fought so nobly on each fearful day. We, of the ‘•bluo,” though they sought to sever The bond of Union, shall cherish never la unkind thought or speak a bitter word, Of those whoso fame—to us—is only blurred By this one J shadow: while wo sought to save The Union of States,” they would dig its grave. 10, gather them home, ’neath a Southern sky, With a tender heart and a tearful eye; 0, nuke them a grave where nature and art Thrii beauty and joy shall forever impart. For yen they struggled, and for you they fell, I And yon the story of their life must tell, j let it be tpoken in truth and in love, I ••ad leave the sequel to their God above. Clayton, Alabama, October 25,1869. . "There has never been any action by the Board I« Managers,” says tho President of the Cemetery I Conpany, (a Radical political association,) “inre- I : tho disposition of the Southern dead I tag on the battle field. Neither is there any action I Mttmplated.” I f Almost the only words uttered by Gen. Meade, | k the recent Gettysburg dedication, wero in severe I; Sanitation of the treatment paid the graves of IwBhero soldiers—many of them being so badly ■ vvbod away that the bodies wero exposed. His | :i - '• •".:• ranees are heartily endorsed by all true IWcrn soldiers, but not by such political heroes I* Gens. Butler, Logan and Goaty, who control tho l*jugement of this Gettysburg dedication, for it is ■•— than a land speculation. Ljdee Gen. Chamberlain’s admirablo address be- JJ»tho "Society of tho Army of the Potomac.” in |’~k he pays a noble tribute to the heroism and en- •'. o of the "army of Northern Virginia." and -i * expression to tiffs fraternal sentiment, tho |t«city of which cannot bo doubted. pt Syllabus—Object and Intention | thereof. Philadelphia Ledger.] I Kcumenical Council, about to sit next Iwcember, will consider the doctrines set forth l^the Syllabus attached to the pastoral letter I !^tn by Pope Pius IX, in 1864. The Syllabus, I”i4ed under appropriate general heads, ooa- I t. H^ty specifications of religious errors I ruling at the present day, and has been the l»t*t of severe comments. It is, therefore, a of interest to learn what views in refer- r :: - iLese points of religion ere entertained I ; Pvuiincnt members of the Catholic Church, the latest foreign mails bring accounts of I'ucotuse on the Syllabus, delivered in Loudon ^October 3d, by Archbishop Manning, one of If »ost learned and most distinguished Catho- '? r elateg, wo give a brief abstract of the ser- ■ Archbishop Manning says that it the j bad confined himself in the Syllabus sim- ■Jo. inculcating the neoessity of faith and in the ordinary personal sense of • -' i. very little would have been heard ~■■■'•don, but because he had pointed out ' ; I'-mned all those errors in political phi- 3>“T, which were based upon an erroneous fj? s ® of morals, the world has been in uproar. ' modem civilization" condemned by the '■■■’ -tit, said Dr. Manning, a state of polit- ^ weiety founded upon divorce, secular edu- -< infinite divisions and contradictions in •f’i of religion, and the absolute renuncia- '_''• tho supreme authority of the Christian The intention of the Syllabus, he said Rwi to invite those who have wandered ^ bhrigtwn civilization to modern oiviliza- : return to Christian marriage, Christian jp 1Q ;n, Christian unity of faith and worship, jrp’ “ rifi rian submission to Him who is pastor i^*°^‘~The mountains in this vioinity were with a considerable sprinkle of snow on •ihy morning, and severe frosts have been “«noed in several sections.— Warrenton absentee is said to have sent this message to his steward : “ Tell the 1 wat no threats to shoot yon will terrify Agricultural Improvement in the Month. From the Baltimore Sun.] That there is a great deal of intelligence and practical good sense applied to the agriculture of the South no one, we suppose, doubts but Mr. Horace Greeley and the truck-patch farmers who assemble weekly in New York to enlighten the world and to amuse “the rest of mankind.” Mr. Greeley was not content to make himself ridiculous in his patronizing speech at Lynch burg, in which he delivered a lecture on tho drought and deep plowing, but going back to New York he lectured the Farmers’ Institute for having allowed somebody there to speak in fa vor of shallow plowing, by which the poor farmers of the South had been misled to the loss of so many million busqels of corn. Bad as Southern farming is, Mr. G. really thinfcy there is some excuse for it in the unwise talk reported from the centre of truck-patching. Southern farmers must take notice of this and take courage. In the course of time it may be that they can attain to the great distinction in agriculture of raising patches of potatoes, which will sell for fifty dollars apiece, and vin dicate their claim to rank with the Greeley and Solon Robinsons of Agriculture. In the mean time let them be modest with their 3.000,000 bales of cotton and their $300,000,000 of sur plus production, and listen to Mr. Greeley’s lec ture on deep plowing. We began with the purpose of remarking on a publication made recently in a Southern journal, by a farmer of North Carolina, of ex periments in manuring and their results, and on the general spirit of energy in the Sonth in the direction of agricultural improvement. It seems to ns that never before was there so much of wholesome excitement os is exhibited in the very numerous agricultural exhibitions throughout the Southern Statea, while individ uals everywhere are competing with each other in intelligent and well directed experiment. Not only aro the best methods of cultivation taught and practised, but immense sums are expended both in crop making and in the more permanent improvement of the land. South ern agriculture has laid aside with slavery its nomadic character. It was profitable in for mer days to migrate with a large working force to fresh lands and give away, if need bo, the fields which had been skimmed of their first fertility. Now landholders can only afford to Btay at home, and more than ever before they are clinging to the old homesteads, endeared to them a thousand fold by the misfortunes and disasters of the years past, and are building them up again and investing them afresh with the beanty and fertility of their first estate. The author of the article above allnded to, a North Carolina farmer, is giving his own expe rience on several points of practice, and remarks on the occasion he finds for diminishing the ex tensive tillage of Indian com, a most exhaust ing crop, and substituting others as more pro ductive of food at less cost to the soil. Whether we may concur or not in his judgment on this point, what he says still illustrates our remark as to tho effort after more profitable modes of culture. He says: “ Now any farmer who will quit com except as a cleansing crop, or upon highly improved lots, and who will use brains and pain and Baugh's Phosphate (or any of the many equally good, perhaps.) on small grain and clover, and more brains and more pains on root crops, with stable manure and Baugh's Phosphate alternated, will find hi3 net profits in creased fifty per cent, and his land rapidly im- S roved. To prove this to the most skeptical lip Van Winkle, I need only say that a bushel of potatoes has always been, is, and will always be, equal in value in the market to a bushel of com. I never knew in this region of more than seventy-five bushels of com being made to the acre, and that was on a highly manured town lot; and the average yield is not above five bush els per acre, worth five dollars. I raised on an old field, the first time it was ever manured in the memory of man, five hundred bushels of po tatoes per acre, and my neighbor did the same on an ordinary field of new ground. The samo manuring might have perhaps produced fifty bushels of com, worth fifty dollars, while the potatoes were worth five hundred dollars, show ing a difference in favor of root culture of four hundred and fifty dollars per acre. Further, a bushel of ruta baga is worth more in Wilming ton to-day than a bushel of com, and Major Lynch has made five hundred bushels of turnips per acre.” While wheat is shown to be an unprofitable crop, as commonly cultivated, ho says .* “Wheat must eater as an important element in any intel ligent farmer’s system in this region, but never without a fertilizer. It requires but little labor, it leaves the laud exposed but a short time to sun and flood; and as a foundation stone of root culture, the straw and the succeeding crop of clover hay furnish food to winter cattlo on at al most no cost at all; and the cattle in their turn famish manure for roots. On wheat, $10 per acre in Baugh’s phosphate will make ten bush els, where only two and a half, would have grown without it; five bushels will pay for tho manure and have two and a half bushel^, worth $5 of dear profit the first year, being fifty per cent, on the money invested, and 100 per cent, on the previous net yield, with the samo labor. The same $10 in phosphate that made the wheat is a perfect specific for red clover. Tho first crop of this clover is worth in the market or for home consumption $15 in dover hay, a profit of 150 per cent, on the money invested tho year before, and already paid in wheat, and the sec ond crop turned, (never pastured), will, with $10 in phosphate again, make fifteen bushels of wheat, showing an increased productiveness of 50 per cent. Conld greater encouragement be offered to owners of the poorest land, than this, which, in its immediate results, overpays largely all cost, and leaves the ground, for all the future, self- sustaining? The point of successful clover- growing determines the capacity of land to pre serve its fertility and to increase it indefinitely, and only gross ignorance and criminal careless ness will allow it to fall again below that. Let this be well understood, and if the success of a North Carolina farmer shall prove to be of gen eral application, the fields of the South will soon be brought back to tho condition from which they fell under the peculiar circumstances of a wide domain of accessible fertile soil; and an amount of available labor quite inadequate to the profitable cultivation of all, and incapable of increase while the condition of slavery re pelled immigration. It was fonnd cheaper to work new and extremely fertile lands than to renew and re-enrich those which had gone through long years of exhaustion, and labor went where there was most to be made from it. Nowit will be found more profitable as well as more pleasant to stay at home. Speaking of the facility with which stock may be raised and be included in the items of profit, he says: “ The cow enters as a very important element into this system of farming. Where there is a range, as is generally the case with ns, a cow, worth, in beef, hide and tallow, $20, mu be raised with fifty cents worth of salt; and if her manure be considered, she can be raised at a good profit in manure, and then sold for $20 clear cash profit. There is the great advantage in the South of being able to raise and keep stock through the winter with scarcely any pro vision of food or sheltor, so that in a suitable range such as every farm almost affords, cattle can be raised in numbers proportioned to the extent of range at a mere nominal cost. “In this Southern landholders haven great advantage, that they may concentrate their available labor as much as they please, using fertilizers largely, and cultivating such crops as give a large return per acre, as tobacco, cotton, where readily saleable, potatoes, etc., and throwing the lands not thus appropriated into pasture, can make a profit of cattle, sheep, hogs, etc., that need no labor, and make useful ad juncts inm snaring the arable land.” Of hogs the writer says, that with com at $1 per bushel, they cannot be raised on com at less than $15 per hundred, and that pork si worth there but $10 in the market; yet “on potatoes the ordinary stock of hogs can be raised at $6 per hundred of actual cost. (I fattenedjn^liogs on potatoes last fall and know whereof I affirm,) ana if the potatoes are exchanged bushel for bushel for com, as Dr. Mehane and Maj. 'Lynch did, the cost of pork is still further reduced, as a bushel of com that Is worth only a bushel of potatoes in the market is worth two bushels of potatoes in a hog. What can be done by im proving our stock of hogs I am not prepared to say, but it is a generally received statement that the feed which make 200 pounds of pork from the ordinary hog, will make 200 pounds if fed to the improved hog, and this improved hog is now offered at our doors at Pennsylvania prices.” All these points made indicate, wliat we note in a thousand other directions, that the energy and intelligence of Southern agriculturists are working in the way of improvement. The Gold Speculating Muss. The New York correspondent of the Charles ton Courier has tho following upon the gold speculating imbroglio in New York: The great topic of conversation in all New York circles just now is the alleged complicity of Grant’s family in last month’s gold specula tions. Tho rumors bearing on this have been heretofore alluded to, in this correspondence, and were at the time discredited so emphatic ally by your correspondent, that now, after the lapse of four weeks, with constantly accumulat ing evidence before hiu, he feels bound, for troth’s sake, to withdraw said denial, and to ex press his-belief that ono of tho most enormous Government conspiracies that ever disgraced any country is just about being developed, and will continue to be the gTeat sensation in and outside of Congress during the next winter. Tho parties accused, Mr. Corbin, Grant’s brother-in-law, General Butterfield, the Assist ant Treasurer at this port, Mrs. Grant and Mrs. Corbin, also Mr. Catherwood, Corbin’s son-in- law, have now had sufficient time, nearly two weeks, in which to deny all complicity; while the accusers, Jay Gould and James Fisk, jr., are piling on th*o evidence stronger and strong er, day by day, that one must naturally be the most incredulous of men to believe that Mr. Gould’s accusations, with his data, facts and figures, all heaped on tho top of another, are mere imaginary statements, and have nothing but fancy to stand upon. I have taken considerable pains—especially because in a previous letter I threw doubt upon all these accusations, and considered them pure ly malicious and sensational—to sift the matter entirely to its very foundation, and in several conversations had with Jay Gould, a coolheaded, calm and shrewd man, quite the opposite of his partner, James Fisk, Jr., I have come to the following conclusions *. That this man, Abel R. Corbin, a widower, married in April last Gen. Grant’s sister; that after having installed him- himself into the confidence of his distinguished brother-in-law,and havinghis manBatterfield ap pointed as the Assistant Treasurer in New York, he sold his influenco for cash, $125,000, to Mr. Gould, and subsequently, by and with the aid of said Mr. Gould, succeeded in manipulating the Treasury policy to such an extent aa would bene- Grant and Mrs. Corbin, Grant’s sister. He sold, for instance, half a million in gold which he bad bought at 132 at 137, for and on account of Mrs. Grant; arid while Grant prevented Boutwell from selling gold, as is well known to Richard son, tho Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, he tamed his policy, and ordered the sale the moment he heard from Corbin that tho ladies were no longer in the speculation. Tho above is in a few words the enormous al legation which Grant has vaguely hinted in a letter to Robert Bonner, which has since been made stronger by any number of data and fig ures, which is really bewildering. The effect has been that even outspoken Bepublican presses commence to believe that there is some fire under all this smoke, and that the grand jury now in session here have taken the matter in hand, and are going to bring the guilty par ties to tho foreground. Corbin maybe indicted for conspiracy, he then may be sacrificed to save the President’s wife, or he may defend himself and tell all. We are only at the begin ning of the end, and New York is watching anx iously for more developments. Of course there is a good deal of by-play to all this, such as Boutwell's manceuvres to help the Radicals who were short of gold, and thus place himself on the track for the Presidential succession. And the Assistant Treasurer’s speculations, also the use the latter made for his own good of tho telegrams sent him to sell gold, but these points are all insignificant Compared with the great fact that the White House and Wall street wero hand in hand during the im mense specnlatious, and that Mrs. Grant was one of the persons who have made money by all this. • She is known to be much more of a man than her husband, a person of considerable mind, and goes in strongly for making money. Chinese Coming and Going. Carl Sofiurz has recently written an interest ing paper on the Chinese, which we find trans lated in the St. Louis Republican. He says that the Chinese como here to make money, and that they all go back, eventually, to their own land. They are returning all the time. This explains tho fact that the aggregate of all the Chinese in the United States barely exceeds 80,000, while there has been a strong and unin terrupted Chinese immigration since the occu pation of California by the Americans. Up to 1852, 18,324 Chinese had arrived at San Fran cisco. In 1854 there landed upward of 15,000. From 1822 until 1803, the aggregate Chinese immigration was 88,402. From 18G4 to 1868, only 10,098 arrived, during which period even a greater number had returned to China. Sinco the first of January, 1869, upward of 11,000 have arrived. The immigration being oa the increase again. The aggregate number of the Chinese emigrants during the last twen ty years is 110,000 or about 5,000 per annum. Probably 1,000 returned every year, so that the remaining surplus immigration of the Chinese, when compared with the aggregate of the popu lation of the United States, is excessively insig nificant Only 3.7CG females were among the whole number of Chinese immigrants during these twenty years. They invariably belong to the lowest classes, a sufficient evidence that the Chinese do not intend to settle permanently in this country. The wealthier men, only in the rarest cases, bring their wives along, and even almost all have returned to China, because they did not like it here. We, therefore, need not trouble ourselves about the deluge from China. —N. Y. Commercial Adcerliser. Tho Rotary notion of the Earth Dem onstrated—An Interesting Experi ment. Tho question of the rotary motion of the earth has for ages past given rise to learned discus sions between scientific men, and numberless experiments have been made to demonstrate the theory. Foucaultz, a learned Frenchman, some years ago announced a simple contrivance which he claimed set at rest all disputations on the question and demonstrated the theory be yond cavil. Mr. T. C. Mendenhall, of the Co lumbus High School, completed arrangements for a test of Foucaultz’s contrivance on Satur day, and proceeded to pnt it in operation. A wire was attached to a light cross-beam from the inside centre of the dome of the State Capitol, reaching nearly to the floor of the rotunda be low. To the lower end of this wire a metalic ball of twenty-eight pounds weight was at tached. The ornamental piece of rotunda pavement famished a circle, through the centre of which, from the true north, a line was struck to the south. Nine additional lines, representing nine degrees of varia tion from the true north, were marked on tho circles. The ball was set in its vibration on the north and Booth line, and in one hoar had de parted from the line in its vibration, and was describing the line of the first degree to the right. The proposition was that at the end of the ninth hour from the start of the ball, it would so far depart from the true north and sooth line as to describe the ninth- While the ball seemed to leave the track in which it originally started, it really did not. The apparent variation was due to the rotary motion of the earth. This was the second trial of this interesting experiment in the United States, and the third in the world. The committee of gentlemen conducting it, on Saturday expressed themselves as entirely satis fied with the result. It will probably be repeat ed to-day— Columbus (Ohio) Statesman^ 18IA. Rare Sport on the Lakes. Long Point, on the North shore of Lake JJrie, must be a capital resort for sportsmen. A com pany which is regularly incorporated lias pur chased a tract of land there, including some eighteen thousand acres, about six thousand of which are marshes. They have erected suitable buildings and have rare sport. There arc twelve licensed “hunters” living on the tract, who, dur ing the summer season, busy themselves in coast ing and otherwise, but are in readiness for sport ing at the opening of the shooting season. Dur ing the winter they trap muskrat and mink, with which the Point abounds, as the fact of their making catches during the winter months of about ten thousand skins, atteiis. The season of trapping is limited to six weeks in, the Spring of the year, whereas, formerly, it jwas^carried on all the winter. The present restrictions are decid edly advantageous, as will be seen from the fact that the winter “catch” has been increased there by about seven thousand skins. Tho trapping of the mink has also been increased, about two hundred skins being the average yield for the winter months. The company employs a head manager, and two keepers,who look after the in terests of the grounds and prevent poaching. A portion of the tract is leased to lumbermen for the purpose of cutting timber. At the conclu sion of the lease, which will occur some time next year, it is the intention of the company to stock the Point with deer, partridge;, and quail, thus making a most exclusive preserve. There are between fifteen and twenty ponds on the tract, which aflonl a refuge to the vast number of ducks and other water fowl, which frequent these places during the day, and to this is owing, in great measure, the preservation of the excellent shooting hero afforded. The wild celery and rice, which grow in abundance throughout the marshes, afiord excellent food for the game, and the ducks grow very fat in consequence About the 12th of October the finest shooting com mences, and then the black and gray duck, mal lard, gray teal, blue and green winged teal, pid- tail, and blue-bill are to be found in great quan tities. The wood duck, black and gray duck, breed on the tract, but the other varieties are foreigners, who migrate thither during certain seasons. No shooting is allowed on the premi ses on Sunday, and, when circumstances admit, religious service is held; so it may be seen that the moral basis of the company is fully estab lished. The creeks and ponds are filled with varieties of fish. The “Kankakee Hunting Club,” which is composed chiefly of citizens of Alleghany county,have,however, a greater varie ty of game than the Long Point Company, such as prairie chickens, snipe, and woodcock. Rust in Cotton. Dr. Pendleton furnishes the Hancock Journal with the following: Mr. Editor; A recent letter from a gentle man of your place says, that “the cotton crops have been seriously injured in this neighbor hood by rust, especially where fertilizers have been used. Some attribute it to ammonia and some to tho phosphates, etc. What is the cause and remedy.” I propose to answer this letter briefly through tho medium of your paper. What is here called rnst is simply a blight, premature decay. There is no snch thing as rust in cotton similar to rnst in wheat. This latter is the result of a weak stem, deficiency of silicate of potash in the stalk, perhaps it cracks open and there exudes a portion of the sap, which seems to oxidise and presents the appear ance of iron rust. Hence its name. Of course the grain is injured by it according to its ex tent. There are three kinds of cotton blight which may be termed dry, humid and land blight. The first has prevailed this year particularly in sandy lands, where stimulating fertilizers have been used. Up to early in August with plenty of rain, the crops were excellent, full of sap, juicy and succulent. The drought came, hot sun, sandy soils, no water, stimulating guanos, soon dried up the juices, hardened the woody fibre of the stalk, closed the pores and cut off nutrition to the leaves and forms. Ob struction. premature decay, and death wa3 the result. This is what is called rust in wheat. We designate it dry blight. What are the rem edies ? Subsoil onr lauds, use fertilizers that are less stimulating, and not in snch undue quantities, and don’t crowd your plants. This will prevent the dry blight, but you will not make as much cotton per acre perhaps, if there is plenty of rain, as those who plant thick and nse pure manure. In my experiment platt all the fertilizers with Peruvian guano as a base suffered early from drought and blight The phosphatic compounds later. Those rows with natural soil simply, last after all. The humid blight is where the subsoil is a hard pan, pipe clay for instance, and there is too much rain. The water does not percolate through the subsoil, the roots are submerged, nutrition obstructed, and blight comes on very similar in appearance to the other. The rem edy for this is underdraining. The land rust is owing to an inherent defi ciency of nutriment in the soil, and occurs ev ery year in the same land. Some one or more of the inorganic elements are lacking. The remedy is a good coating of ashes, which con tains all of the inorganic elements and supplies the deficiency at once. E. M. Pendleton. The Virginia Oyster War—A Gallant Feat. We clip the following account of a naval ac tion in Tangier Sound last week, from the Press: Information has been received at Fortress Monroe that Commodore W. H. C. Lovitt, chief inspector of oysters for this State, has got into trouble again in Tangier Sound with the oyster- men. He had some difficulty to those waters lost season, and, determining to guard against it this season, procured the services of some twenty soldiers under a competent officer to as sist him in enforcing the law. They loft Nor folk a day or two since to the steamers Trede gar and W. F. Taylor. On Friday last they endeavored to overhaul the schooner Anna Virginia, which was taking oysters in Tangier Sound contrary to law. She had a fair wind and started to send before it. The officer to command of the troops wanted to fire a shot at her to make her come to, but the Inspector thought it was unnecessary, as the steamer was gaining. As the steamer contain ing the troops was closing up on her, the cap tain of the schooner, not caring to be caught in that manner, put his helm about and ran for the steamer, struck her amidships and sunk her al most ustmtly. He then put her before the wind again and showed them a “clean pair of heels" while the other steamer stopped to pick np the crew and troops. Fortunately there were none of them injured, and they escaped with a good ducking and the loss of their baggage. The Commodore had better try the range.of his guns on the next one that tries to elude him. Tbo Colored Labor Convention. The Griffin Star, of Tuesday, says: The Macon Convention, while it did not do as much harm as we anticipated—for it did not discuss politics—yet it failed in our opinion to do much that will redound to the benefit of the colored race, and it did some very unwise things. For instance, it recommended the col ored people to withdraw their female labor from the field as soon as possible. This thing is one of the worst results of emancipation. Thousands of stout, healthy negro women, have already-quit the fields and become a burden in stead of a help to their husbands and fathers. They seem to think that because white women don’t generally work out doors, it must be de grading to the blacks. This is a mistake. Another committee “report” upon the great importance of having negro preachers, negro lawyers, negro doctors, philosophers and ed itors. This is another mistake. The profes sions are already crowded. What is needed in this line is—not more professional men but bet ter ones, while the attempt to crowd the colored race into these professions will only result in discord and strife. Some of their reports, however, betoken some good sense and discretion. * * * We must also economize labor. Already the Sonth is making rapid strides in this direction, and yet has made scarcely a beginning. Im proved agricultural implements must be found everywhere. The cooking stove, washing ma chine, sewing machine, etc., must be fonnd in every dwelling. The old kitchens muBt be tom down and neat little cook rooms attached to the house, so that madame, when compelled to, can go to her cooking establishment without getting either head or foot wet. Then every home should have its wood house always full of dry wood, cut up and ready for use, and close to the kitchen; also, a wash room and store room and several convenient closets. Even the poor man can have these conveniences after an humble style, at slight expense, while the rich can make them as gorgeous as they please. We look forward to the accomplishment of all these things with a degree of joy almost inex pressible. It is our politics and almost our re ligion, and it is of more importance than the fifteenth amendment, or any other demagogue hue and cry. Murderer Arrested. George Smith, who murdered Mr. Jandou, of this county, some weeks ago, an account of which we published at the time, has been arrest ed and is now in jail and securely confined. He was captured by Mr. Israel Maples, of Camilla, on his planation near that village in Mitchell county, and brought to this city on Saturday last. It seems that Mr. Maples received infor mation that a strange negro was prowling about the neighborhood, and the description given led him to suspicion that he was the murderer of Jaudon. With the double object of hunting game and the negro, he rode around his place and the negro houses, in one of which he found the suspected murderer. Engaging in conver sation with him Mr. M. soon satisfied himself that his suspicions were correct, and at once arrested him. The negro acknowledged his identity and Mr. Maples brought him to jail. The murder was most atrocious, and taken in connection with the notorious bad character of the negro, created such a feeling of indignation and thirst for revenge, that he would most cer tainly have been lynched had he been captured by the people of the neighborhood. He was lucky in falling into the hands of Mr. Maples in another county, and being lodged in jail before his arrest was known by the friends of bis victim. It is best as it is, and we are glad onr citizens are manifesting a stem resolve that he shall have a fair and impartial trial by the laws of the country. The knife with which he killed Mr. Jaudon was found on his person. It is a dirk, with a blade about five inches long.—Albany News. Farmers’ Home Journal, Issued weekly at Lexington, Ky., and devoted to agriculture, mechanio arts, pure literature, etc., is published in the centre of the famed Blue Grass region, which is so widely known for its superior thorough-bred horses, cattle, sheep, hogs, eto. In its columns are to be found the advertise ments of the most prominent breeders in the Union, reports of sales and prices, and other valuable matter, which we commend to all who desire to procure'the most spproved strains of stock. It also presents the claims of the most exten- sive manufacturers, thus making known to the farmer the latest improvements in agricultnral implements and labor-saving machinery. In addition to these merits, it is also a practical ag ricultural journal, treating weekly of all matters pertaining to the farm and on kindred subjects, giving tho results of experience of the best farmers, discussions of farmers’ clubs on the most approved modes of farming in all of its branches. Weekly reports of the markets are also presented. It is likewise regarded as a superior family paper, having a large space devoted to litera ture, domestic economy and household interests, and to this important respect it is equal to any other journal in the country—the convincing ev idence of this fact being found in its great pop ularity and high reputation. Specimen copies sent free. Terms $3 per year; clubs of $G or more, $2 50. Little Emigrants. An extraordinary emigration party was made up a little while ago in the county of Mayo, Ireland. Three children, aged respectively eleven, six and four, agreed to start from their native village and make their way to Chicago! Their father had sent them a tic&et to take them from Liverpool to New York, and armed with that and the sum of ten shillings, they set out on their travels. The poor children, we are told, had not even a wrapper to protect them “from the cold and rain and storms of the At lantic in the late months of autumn.” They had nothing on but cotton frocks and “skimpy summer shawls.” Bat they had plenty of cour age, and the hope of rejoining their father car ried them on in hope and confidence. Fortun ately for them, a gentleman met them and as sisted them on their way to Liverpool, from whence they took ship in safety for New York. It would be bard if those children were not taken good care of by the father whom they have traveled so far to meet again.—New York Times. A Great Shake in Boston. Boston, which failed to get Fere Hyacinthe, is forced to be content with an earthquake. It j came on Friday morning and shook Boston out ( of its bools. In fact, Boston, as it was half-past! five o’clock in the morning, was already out of ; its boots and in bed, except the late night watch- ; men and the early seekers of the fnrtive cock- : tail Thousands were roused from their slum- j bars with the uncomfortable sensation their beds • were under motion and their houses were about' to fall upon them. The bell rang in houses and the matin milkmen in terror desisted from the 1 admixture of Coohituate with the lacteal fluid. It was but a moment, however, and the work went on. The earthquake was pronounced no great shakes, and Boston, with its new sensation, j found more reason for self-glorification. The earthquake made a dash at the Coliseum, but the Coliseum was too mpeh for it. That struc ture so fearfully and wonderfully made, which had resisted the whirlwind of the monster con certs and had scorned two elemental torpedoes that had heen precipitated upon it, was not thus to be foiled to its mission. It was pnt np in a lottery, and was to be drawn, and it would not do to snoenmb to the fate which an earthquake had designed for it.—Commercial Advertiser. From Hall County. From the Gainesville Air-Line Eagle of the 22d we clip the following: AtB-IiiNE Raxlboad.—The engineer corps is busily engaged in locating the 33 mile section from Pinckneyville to Gainesville, and expect to complete the final survey some time in Novem ber, by which time the traok will have been fin ished and the cars running to the former place. This is good news. The drouth was brought to a dose last night, after a long ratoons reign of over four months, during which time we - have had only three or four light showers, sufficient to barely lay the dost. All that saves us from aotual suffering is the breadth of land planted on low lands and deep ploughing by many of our farmers. Next year we will plough deeper. We will! I never saw anybody do anything that I did not watch them and see how they did it, for there is no telling but that sometime I might have to do it myself. I was going across a prairie once; my horse began to Bmp. Luddly I came across a blacksmith shop, but the smith was not at home. I asked the woman of the house if she would allow me to start a fire and make the shoe. She said I might if I knew how; so I started a fire and heated the shoe red hot and turned it to fit my horse’s foot, and shod the horse. At the next place I came to I went straight to a smith, and told him to put the shoo on properly. He looked at the horse’s foot, and paid me the greatest compliment I ever reoeived in my life. He told me if I pnt on that shoe I had better follow blaekamithing all my life.—Beecher to his Sunday School children. Weekly Resume ol Foreign AfJOira. prepared for the okobgu telegraph. Great Britain.—Lord Derby, the Chief of the Tories, died in Ins 70th year, after a linger ing illness of several days. In Bristol ihe social-scientific Congress was assembled, which aims at reforms in the law and educational department corresponding with the progress of political eoonomy. Demonstrations in favor of the Fenian pris oners continue in Ireland. The Irish intend to force the Government to grant a pardon by overwhelming mass protestations. But it is more than improbable that the Cabinet will yield to the prearare, fearing that such an act of cUtt- oeaa-can only be pursued to their hiding places •noy will be interpreted as a symptom of weak ness, inspiring the sons at Erin anew with bold ideas and hopes of the national independence of the Emerald Isle, instead of reconciling them to English role as a measure of forbearance. The Government wishes to do justice to Ireland in regard to the land tenant question, and there can be hardly a doubt that just complaints will also find a willing ear in the next session of Parliament. But the demands of the Irish peas antry go sometimes beyond the measure of jus tice. In Kanturk, in the county of Cork, a so ciety of laborers has been organized, asking for a oomfortable home with one acre and a half of land at a cheap rent, for every laborer, to be provided by the Irish land tenure bill In the Alabama correspondence the American Government, with great emphasis, has always dwelt upon the foot, that England had recog nized the Southern States as belligerents. Eng land has constantly refused to listen to this re proach—and by right! At last she has even found a champion in the American camp. Wil liam Beach Lawrence, an authority in interna tional law and the editor of Wheaton’s “Inter national Law,” who has already represented the United States at the Court of St. James, touched upon this topic in a speech delivered before the social-scientific Congress in Bristol. He said: .“The complaint about the recognition of the Southern States as belligerents is not founded. Whoever is acquainted with the first principles of international law must know that the ques tion can only be raised whether a party maybe considered as belligerent. With the late Sir Comewall Lewis I ask, if an army of one mil lion on each side does not constitute the state of warfare, what then is meant by warfare?” He goes farther on to demonstrate that the de cree of Linooln proclaiming the blockade and demanding the capture of English vessels at tempting to run ihe blockade, was nothing less than a recognition of the state of warfare.” The author of “ The Last Days of Pompeii,” Night end Morning,” eto., who loves to dis play in his novels his profound knowledge of classical lore, has published a translation of the odes of Horace. The measure of the English verses is similar to the Latin metre. France.—The deputies Gambetta, Raspail, Esquiros, eto., have abandoned the idea of as sembling in the Palace of the Corps Legialatif on the 26th of October, the legal day for the reassembling of that body. For the French constitution provides that a period not longer than six months shall elapse between the disso lution of one Legislature and the convocation of the next. As the last Chamber was dissolved npon the 2oth of April, the 26th of the present month is, therefore, the time appointed by law for the meeting of the new body. But, as men tioned already in one of the last resumes, the Imperial decree postpones the meeting of the Chambers nntil the 29th of November. No reason was given for this arbitrary act, no ex cuse was offered. Two motives are said to have determined the Emperor to this course. In the first instance, he wishes to convince the hot headed adversaries of his regime that he is still the master, that he only sways the destinies of France; in the second instance, he wishes to await the return of the Empress from her Ori ental voyage. The columns of the political pa pers are filled with letters from representatives of the Red Bepublican party—Raspail, Keratry, Louis Blanc, Banoel, Gambetta, Rochefort, etc. The opposition press, availing itself of the in dulgence shown to it by the Government, thun ders against the Imperial absolutism. “We pay," the Circle says, “two thousand and five hundred millions of francs to support an army of soldiers, an army of officials, an army of priests; we pay thirty millions annually to the ruling family; we give liberal salaries to minis ters, marshals, cardinals, senators, counselors of state, prefects, eto. And what do we receive in return ? Not even security at home, not even security from to-day until to-morrow. We rob our eyes every morning to look toward the Tn- ileries, because there is an Emperor, who is our work, who should be only the exeentor of onr will, asking ourselves whether he will make peace or war, whether he will be pleased to go forward or backwards, to give us our rights and liberties or to withhold them from us. In theo ry we are a sovereign people, in reality we have a master; tee pay, he commands, rules and gov erns, if one may call it governing.” The Empress carries along with her a whole trunk filled with orders for the Turkish and Egyptian high officials, the mariners of the squadron of the Levant, the laborers of the Suez Canal, and finally for Monsieur de Lease ps, who will receive the “ Grand Cordon of the Legion of Honor.” Eugenie has harried through Upper Italy in the dead of night, not like the Empress of the French, but like a fugitive on her way to exile. This little agrees with her usual habits; for, time Spanish woman as she is, she loves to expose herself to the admiring gaze of the people—her fair, languishing eyes wandering over the assembled crowd. She dwelt and slept in Venice on board her vessel, “The Eagle,” from fear of being the object of unpleasant at tentions on the part of the Italians. Had Euge nie traveled over that land after the peace of Villafranca, 1861, the people would have wor shipped the wife of Napoleon, the Liberator of Italy! But to-day—how cold looks Italy upon this woman! The Italians claim Rome as their capital, and no lasting peace will visit Itily until the dream of Dante has been fulfilled. Victor Emanuel would have long resided near tbs rains of the Colissenm bat for the French. lake a cherub with the flaming sword, the French sen tinel keeps guard before the gates of the Eternal City, calling to the Italians: “Beware! Here and no farther 1” And Italy ascribes the pres ence of French troops in Rome chiefly to toe influence of the Empress, who shields the Vati can from the Italian arms. Though it may quite agree with Napoleon's own plans to retain a foothold in Italy, yet public opinion points out the Empress as toe most aealoaa defender of ths temporal power of ths Pope. North German Ooxtrucrattoh.—The finan cial bills of the government to bo laid bafote the Landtag will meet with great opposition from almost all parties of the House. Bismarck, will not go to Berlin on tbs occasion of tho present session. He will, probably, spend • *,; great part of the winter on his estate in Varan, * where extensive preparations for a brilliant' winter season are being made. - • The number of vessels now stationed in tho East Asian waters will be increased by several gunboats with m view of forming a North Ger-< man station in the Indian Archipelago. The necessity of sending gunboats to the East, in- order to protect German oommeroe, has long • been felt, as the pirates who infest to* Indian by vessels of small draught. The plan is even entertained of employing a larger number of gunboats at all foreign stations. The first class steam gunboat, “Meteor” has sailed for the West Indian waters and will most likely be fol lowed by a corvette. At the opening of the Suez Canal, November 17th. North Germany will be represented by two corvettes and one aviso ship. The sketch of the new criminal code for North Germany to be introduced into the new Reich stag will do away with capital punishment This part of the new code, however, is expected to meet with strenuous opposition. The subscriptions received for the wives and families of the miners who were killed in the Burg colliery, now amount to 330,000 thalers. South Germany.—The first representation of Richard Wagner's new opera, “Bhinegold,” in Munich, the German Athens, has been the - great event in the artistio world. The work, the ; representation of which on the stage was doe ne ed impossible, is founded on the great German national epos, “ the Nibelungen.” The opera" abounds with scenes and music giving proof of a powerful and original mind. The audienoe was entranced by new images and music. The first scene represents toe Rhine with swim ming Rhine-nymphs; when the music had ar rived at the part where the gleaming of the rising sun upon the Nibelungen-gold sank into the Rhine, the glittering of the mysterious treasure itself is depicted by the most wonder ful melodies, the audience rose as if worked upon by a magic spell; and at the conclusion of the act, despite the presence of King Ladwigll,:' - which forbids any applause, the spectators gave vent to their enthusiasm. Austria.—The panic in Vienna still continues,. and threatens to bury the railway projects and other useful undertakings under the mins of wild speculations, which never had a chance of success. v , In Linz, on the occasion of the restoration of the so-called College barracks, formerly a Jesuit. monastery, the corpse of a Jesuit, who, proba bly, met with his death by the torture, was dis covered. The oorpee, lying in a coffin, had both his legs broken, while his bands were cross* , wise chained by iron cuffs. Thorough investi gations have been instituted. Kingdom of the Netherlands.—The royal Netherland Steamboat Company has conceived the plan of establishing a direct steam line with North America. As for velocity of the steamers the company does not intend to compete with the existing lineB, but will build large boats for carrying goods, and passengers, making the voy age in the medium time of thirteen days. The Dutch port will be Vliasinger, the American, New York. Italy.—Italy is fully alive to the importance of the Suez Canal, which will work a great change in the traffic with the East. Perhaps the wealth of India will flow once more through the Italian cities, merchant Princes will tread again the' Rialto of Venice and dwell in the marble palaces of Genoa. A decree issued by the government, grants the Adriatic Oriental Company a yearly snbvertion of432,000 Lire for carrying the mails between Brindisi and Alescan Dria. At the same time the company Rabattino receives an advance of eight millions (two of them at once) on the con dition of connecting Genoa, Livorno and Naples with Alexandria and the Suez Canal. The “Civilta Cattolica,” the organ of the Pope, writes that the bishops had not been convoked to the council to decide on questions by major ity, but to ratify the decisions which had already been made by the Sovereign and infallible Pope. Spain.—Thedietature is established in Spain. Martial law is proclaimed, individual rights are suspended, and the Cortes lias adjourned sine die, thus leaving Prim the sole dictator of the government of Spain. The danger of the re publican rising has passed away, if the latest news are to be credited. The “Times,” in a financial leader, admits, that in commercial cir cles the confidence was growing that Spain would be able to suppress the republican insurrection! The republican hands, after an obstinate resist ance, arc defeated on all points, and their lead ers are attempting to escape to France, Portugal, Africa or Gibraltar. The stoutest resistance was offered by the city of Valencia, where the insurgents had taken a very strong po sition. "VQien the government troops were encamped bdore the city, the insurgents offered to surrender conditionally. But Prim insisted on their laying down their arms unconditional ly. Negotiations proving fruitless, the troops made an attack, and after a battle lasting several hours, the republicans surrendered uncondition ally. Many houses were burnt down by the fire of the artillery, and a great number of insur gents made prisoners. This victory of the gov ernment has calmed the feverish excitement of the country. Before the Cortes adjourned it authorized toe government to proseente seventeen republican deputies, who had played a part in the insur rections. Likewise tlie deputies from Porto Rico had presented themselves in the Cortes. Gen. Prim, praising the heroism of the war riors fighting in Cuba, told them that the gov ernment would make all efforts to advance the interests of Porto Rico. It is asserted that the republicans are acting in concert with the Cubans. The latter, it U said, are willing to aid the Spanish republicans with money on the condition that Cuba’s inde pendence shall be reoognized after the republic is established in Spain. Cuba.—Three steamers had arrived within 48 hours, bringing reinforcements for the Spanish army. Another transport of troops from Cadis had landed 1000 men in Cianfnegos. Twenty Os- bans had surrendered to the Spanish autkoattea in Cienfuegos, asking for pardon. Turret.—The Empress Eugenie had arrived in Constantinople. She was reoeived with to* most brilliant and imposing festivals. The pomp to be displayed will doubtless recall toe fairy tales of the “Thousand and aae Nights; "for the Sultan, to meet the expenses MUntoaod by the presenoe of the Congress, has drawn, on the Parisian “Socioto Generate" only, twenty-sina millions at franca. It is very oktlf that t|» Empress, fulfilling an oU vow of {Mt, (he visit the 1 rass, fulfilling an old vow qf the Holy 8*ixitefcro ifi Jeutelteto. t, t . t v * < 4 ». ’> . t. V . > *4 item KMm yS’p'VW.i jfam